Facing an uphill fight against titans IBM, HP and Dell, the Japanese systems vendor believes it has its own secret sauce to take on the data center and gain cloud computing market share.
Facing an uphill fight against titans IBM, HP and Dell, the Japanese systems vendor believes it has its own secret sauce to take on the data center and gain cloud computing market share.
<b>Bloomberg:</b> "If you're put off by Steve Jobs's control-freakdom and Microsoft's long history of buggy bloatware, you might want to spend some time with Dell's line of laptops running Ubuntu, the free, consumer-oriented version of the open-source Linux operating system."
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Obtaining the accelerometer data allows you to build very interesting applications, such as a spirit level, as well as games that depend on motion detection.
Research firm Gartner argues in a new report that servers that are virtualized end up being less secure than before when it comes to network security. But it also has advice on how they can be better secured.
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Hard-Core Hardware: The age of solar power is fast arriving, and it may be keeping the lights on in a data center near you. The former downsides, chiefly cost constraints, no longer apply.
Hard-Core Hardware: The age of solar power is fast arriving, and it may be keeping the lights on in a data center near you. The former downsides, chiefly cost constraints, no longer apply.
The latest business laptop from Acer features a slim, sleek look with impressive battery life (more than six hours). And at 4.4 pounds, it won’t break your back.
Recently acquired, the Metasploit project is a popular pen testing framework loved by white- and black-hats alike. Now that it has a corporate parent, does it have a future as a viable open source project?
Server Snapshot: Dell has pushed Sun out of the No. 3 server spot. Given the OEM's new array of products, will it be long before Dell's ascendancy places it at IBM's and HP's backs?
<b>Tech Broiler:</b> "We talk about Canonical's upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release for Desktop and Server, and the company's near term goals for 2010 and 2011."
Server Snapshot: Dell has pushed Sun out of the No. 3 server spot. Given the OEM's new array of products, will it be long before Dell's ascendancy places it at IBM's and HP's backs?
Bob Muglia's PASS keynote addresses on Tuesday revealed a rack that contained 8 different IBM machines, configured with 192 different CPUs. Ted Kummert demonstrated SQL Server Report Builder 3 and discussed Microsoft's Information Platform Vision. 	
<b>Desktop Linux:</b> "Shuttle announced a compact, all-in-one PC featuring a 15.6-inch touchscreen and a dual-core Intel Atom D510 available with SUSE Linux. The X50V2 includes a 1366 x 768 display, webcam, 4-in-1 card reader, a 2.5-inch hard drive bay, and up to 4GB of RAM, says the company."